 | English dictation - 1881 - 156 psl.
...the World that two papers in which my dictionary is recommended to the Public were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. Seven years, my lord, have now passed... | |
 | Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy - 1883 - 426 psl.
...the World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well hoAv to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1883 - 156 psl.
...with you." Johnson's letter to the Earl of Chesterfield affords several examples of Irony; eg, — "To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." (a) Irony (Gr. it^ut, a dissembler)... | |
 | Samuel Andrews (M.A.) - 1884 - 312 psl.
...the World that two papers in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour, which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. ' When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 psl.
...the World that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 534 psl.
...World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 psl.
...World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi, Richard Cumberland - 1884 - 468 psl.
...World, that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the publick, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. " When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 psl.
...The World' that two papers, in which my Dictionary is recommended to the public, were written by your Lordship. To be so distinguished is an honour which,...very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge. When, upon some slight encouragement,... | |
 | Charles William Bardeen - 1884 - 828 psl.
...with you." Johnson's letter to the Earl of Chesterfield affords several examples of Irony—ef/., " To be so distinguished is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in what terms to acknowledge." Inmy (Gr. ("ptav, a dissembler),... | |
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World,' that two papers, in which my ' Dictionary ' is recommended to the public, were written by your lordship. To be so distinguished, is an honour, which, being very little accustomed to favours from the great, I know not well how to receive, or in... 
